Rich Mellor wrote: <snip>Why wait?? I shall not be able to attend Eidnhoven and so will have to rely on someone else to take stock (Geoff)?Please see my reply to Geoff.They might have sold out you never know !!You are pulling my leg here (correct English? :) If so, it would be great for you, Geoff and Dokos.
Why not ask other traders to add QWORD in their catalog: Roy and Jochen are usually attending Eindhoven.
Ex-traders could do the same. There are cdroms out there (Dilwyn's,..) I have never seen at a QL meeting and so never had the opportunity to buy them.
The problem is that QL software is supplied on a very tight budget - doesn't really leave any room to let others take a share of sale proceeds, especially after taking account of the cost of getting the disks and manuals etc to the trader in the first place. Also, having stocks with other traders also causes problems when you update the software (or need to keep a list of your customers since traders don't always get these details).
Because the QL market is so small, and so few people actually attend shows / buy stuff at the shows, it makes the postage to the trader a very high proportion of the actual profit on any sales (I sent some stuff to teh Norwich show for sale - the profit from the two items that were actually sold did not cover the postage, so I won't be doing that again - leave it for people to order over the internet, or if they aren't willing to find a way of ordering from abroad, let them lose out).
Coupled with the problems of getting payment from fellow traders, it really is not worthwhile any more.
If foreign users want to order stuff from the UK, I would gladly take payments via PayPal and pass on the payment to the actualt trader (less the PayPal fee - about 6%). I have done this before for some of my customers.
-- Rich Mellor RWAP Services 26 Oak Road, Shelfield, Walsall, West Midlands WS4 1RQ
http://www.rwapservices.co.uk/
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